Re: Minimalist alphabet

In a message dated 8/14/04 3:07:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
fiziwig@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< Just a random thought about a minimalist alphabet
 constructed by replacing some letters with new
 digraphs. >>
I have an inclination towards this sort of system.  This is why in Rihana-ye
and Meridonian there is no c, the sounds always being represented by k or s,
g is always the hard g and j is the soft g, etc. Also in Meridonian, x is ks
and qu has become k. In Natece, there is no k or s;  c is consistently used for
the k sound (and in some loanwords it replaces s, though stillpronounced like
k, for example cataten,  from"stand"--in loanwords, t replaces d as there is
no d in Natece.). Ph is used for all the sounds spelled in Latin ph, f, or v.
(How that is consistently pronounced, I have never decided; as I have remarked
before, I think of my conlangs as remains of written texts,not spoken
languages). In Meridonian, Latin i
becomes consistently y, while in Rihana-ye i is the English long e (X-stampa
i)
y  as a vowel is consistently the English long i (X stampa aj). Y is the only
letter in
Rihana-ye with 2 sounds, vowel and consonant; the consonant is as in English
(X-Stampa j).
John Leland